At a glance
Six of the 22 verified facts on this site, picked across both organizations. Each one links to its full entry, source, and verification date.
Prepare
Facts tell you what the rules are. These are longer reads about what they mean and what to do next — this site's own analysis, kept visually separate from the sourced facts above.
- AnalysisAudition day, and the fear of itThe dread is normal, the system quietly knows it, and the things that actually help are procedural, not motivational.
- AnalysisHow to leave a teacher, and what to sayOne of the most-asked questions in flute forums, and one no official page will ever answer. What students actually say, and why the money version is different.
- AnalysisDoes All-State help you get into college?The most contradicted question in this whole subject. Two different questions get mixed together, which is why the answers conflict.
- AnalysisFinding an accompanistAll-State requires one. No official page tells you where to get one. Here is what we could verify, and what we could not.
- AnalysisSight-reading, prepared forIt feels like the one part you cannot practice. NYSSMA's own handbook says otherwise — it publishes the procedure, the scoring, and a level-by-level spec of what the exercise may contain.
- AnalysisWhat you are training for now, and what comes nextNYSSMA asks for scales and sight-reading. The next step up asks for something else entirely, and nobody tells you when the change happens.
Flute·Pass, the app
What this website can't tell you
Everything above is the same for every student — the rules, the dates, the numbers, each checked against its own source. What none of it can tell you is whether your own playing, right now, is ready for the audition you're about to walk into. That question needs to actually hear you play.
Flute Pass — the app this site introduces — records a mock audition and returns band-level feedback against the same kind of rubric your panel uses. Not a score to obsess over. A signal of where you stand before the real thing.
Status: not released yet. This page will link to it when it does.